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. 2014 Jul 21;9(7):e101751. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101751

Table 1. Descriptive information of the dependent, independent and confounding variables.

Age Educational attainment P-value
Variables Low Medium High
Gender (N, %) 11 0.18
Boys 55 (51.4) 650 (53.7) 8.6)
Girls 52 (48.6) 561 (46.3) 163 (41.4)
Age (mean, SD) 19 19.2 (0.66) 19.0 (0.58) 19.1 (0.56) 0.01
Parental educational level (N, %) 11 <0.001
Low 47 (44.3) 279 (23.2) 6.4)
Medium 45 (42.5) 486 (40.4) 17.6)
High 14 (13.2) 438 (36.4) 392 (76)
Family Composition (N, %) 11 <0.001
1 parent 37 (34.6) 262 (21.6) 60 (15.2)
2 parents 70 (65.4) 949 (78.4) 334 (84.8)
IQ (mean, SD) 11 87.9 (13.8) 96.5 (13.1) 110.8 (12.3) <0.001
Academic Performance (mean, SD) 11 3.0 (0.8) 3.6 (0.8) 4.4 (0.5) <0.001
Physical Health (N, %) 11 0.01
Poor 3 (2.8) 18 (1.5) 8 (2.0)
Medium 11 (10.3) 106 (8.8) 23 (5.8)
Good 93 (86.9) 1087 (89.8) 363 (92.1)
Externalizing problems (mean, SD) 11
Self-report (YSR) 10.2 (7.6) 8.9 (6.4) 7.8 (5.3) <0.001
Parents' report (CBCL) 9.5 (6.9) 7.8 (6.4) 5.3 (4.6) <0.001
Internalizing problems (mean, SD) 11
Self-report (YSR) 13.0 (8.7) 11.7 (7.5) 11.2 (7.1) 0.09
Parents' report (CBCL) 8.3 (6.6) 7.9 (6.1) 7.3 (5.9) 0.15
Attention problems (mean, SD) 11
Self-report (YSR) 4.9 (2.8) 4.5 (2.8) 3.9 (2.4) <0.001
Parents' report (CBCL) 5.8 (3.8) 4.5 (3.3) 2.3 (2.1) <0.001
Externalizing problems (mean change since 11, SD) 16
Self-report (YSR) 3.0 (8.9) 1.5 (7.7) 0.3 (6.3) <0.001
Parents' report (CBCL) 1.3 (7.2) −1.6 (6.1) −1.7 (4.4) <0.001
Internalizing problems (mean change since 11, SD) 16
Self-report (YSR) 1.1 (10.9) −1.8 (8.3) −2.0 (7.8) 0.71
Parents' report (CBCL) 0.3 (6.2) −1.6 (6.0) −2.2 (5.9) 0.01
Attention problems (mean change since 11, SD) 16
Self-report (YSR) 1.2 (3.7) 0.9 (3.3) 0.8 (3.1) 0.52
Parents' report (CBCL) −0.9 (3.1) −0.9 (3.1) −0.5 (2.1) 0.05

Chi-square tests are performed for categorical variables and one-way ANOVA analyses for continuous variables.